Harry's Creek, how we doing?

Let's go. Hey, so my dad had a chair. Anybody else's dad had a chair growing up? Yeah, he's got like, it's like the chair. I'm not talking about it at the kitchen table either. I'm talking about in the, we called the den. We had the good living room. I don't know what made it good. But, and the den. And in the den, my dad had a chair as a lazy boy. It was the one you crank, you know, it was like, you sit and just, and if he came home and you were in his chair, you got out of his chair. And that was, that was his chair. When he was sitting in his chair, he would watch TV. TV's about seven feet off his chair. He would sit there and, and he would watch TV. And so, you know, if you had a question, there were these things back then, if you're here and you're younger, something called commercials. And if you had a question, if I wanted to talk to my dad, if I wanted to ask him something, I knew I needed to wait for commercial. Even then sometimes it was like,

hold on, hold on, you know, I'm zeroed in. There's like an acid or something right here. I'm interested in to hear more about. And so you would, you know, you learn these things as a kid, like, oh, this is when dad's not interruptible. Like he's, he's focused, he's doing something. And it wasn't just then, like sometimes he would be, you know, reading the paper.

He would sit in. like he's focused, he's doing something. And it wasn't just then, like sometimes he would be,

you know, reading the paper. He would sit at the kitchen table and, you know, this is called a

newspaper and he would flip through these pay. He could just tell. He was zeroed in, he was

focused. And there was kind of like, if I was, it was kind of like, hey, when you're done, I've got a question for you, you know, and it was, you, you didn't, you didn't really interrupt him. And he, he was a surveyor. And so at his office, you know, I would walk from school to his office, and he would be in there sometimes just like, you know, pounding out on this thing.

And I knew that, you know, he's working.

That's a time that I don't interrupt.

I would sit, I can remember just being a young man, a little boy, sitting at the door,

peering in his office, watching him bang out some numbers on that calculator,

like it would print some you know

on the on the paper there and i needed to wait until he was done before i'd interrupt him and

likewise you know he sometimes would be on the phone and when he was on the phone like when i'm on the

phone it's like this is invisible to my kids.

They're like, hey, dad, let me ask you. I'm like, I'm on the phone. But when my dad was on the

phone, it was like, you didn't interrupt that. You didn't go up. You know, it's like, that was a big

deal. Like, he's on the phone. I'm going to wait until he's done. Well, what's interesting about these

spaces where someone kind of enters in and it's like, hey, this is the do not disturb me zone,

all of these things are now consolidated to this thing.

So it's a phone, but it's kind of the least of what it is.

It is indeed this thing that we can use it to talk to people,

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